[PIF]

You were just arguing for WWII production with fast cheap and survivable, now that’s a unicorn? I’m confused.

The F-35 is all about making the many Pentagon Planners and other Perfumed Princes proud of their cutting edge toys is all - service wide.

[Zhang Fei]

[You were just arguing for WWII production with fast cheap and survivable, now that’s a unicorn? I’m confused.]

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Nothing about WWII was cheap. Every platform was expensive. They just pushed it out the door without quibbling too much about perfection. But it was the opposite of cheap. The war cost 50% of annual output for 4 years. Current defense expenditures are about 4% of annual output.